Shingle-marker



(No Model.)

C. GUYER.

SHINGLE MARKER.

No. 520,424. Patented May 29, 1894.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CALEB GUYER, oF TYRoNE, PENNSYLVANIA.

SHINGLE-IVIARKER.

SPIEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 520,424, dated May 29,1894.

Application iiled October 23, 1893. Serial No. 488,921. (No model.) l

To @la whom it may concern:

Be 1t known thatI, CALEB GUYER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Tyrone, in the county of Blair and State of Pennsylvania, have lnvented a new and useful Shingletlaiker, of which the following is a specificaion.

My invention relates to improvements in shin gle-markers the objects in view being to produce a cheap and simple device adapted to be applied as an attachment to shingle edging-machines so that said shingles may be marked simultaneously with the edging thereof in o rder to indicate the proper point of overlapping the saine during application.

With these general objects in view the invention consists in certain features of con` struction hereinafter specified and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings-Figure l is a sectional View of an edging-table, the saine being provided with a marking-attachment embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail of the attachment in perspective." Fig. 3 isa transverse sectional view of the attachment.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the gures of the drawings.

In constructing the attachment I form preferably a liquid-tight box l, the same being of oblong shape and provided at its opposite ends at its edges with laterally disposed perforated securing-plates 2, by which it may be attached byscrews or bolts to the under side of a plate or table 8, the latter being of the ordinary construction, but the plate above the box being provlded with one or more transverse slots 4 extending at a right angle to the box. The box is provided at one of its side-walls with a plate 5, which plate in the present instance, has two depressions 6, which are disposed vertically therein.v -Each of thesedepressions receives the vertical shank-portion 7 of a spring metal fork 8, the forked plate portion being horizontally disposed and ex tending across the upper open side of the box. These forks are adjustable in the depressions of the plate, and there may be one or a series of them in accordance with the number of marks desired to make upon the shingle, and inasmuch as shingles are applied at points in accordance with the pitch of the roof, I prefer to employ a plurality of these forks each carrying a marking-device hereinafter described, so that a plurality of marks will be made upon the shingle at the same time that the shingle is edged. Each fork 8 is provided with a transversely opposite bearing 9, which accommodates a transverse shaft l0, and arranged upon each shaft is, in the present instance, a marking-wheel l1. This markingwheel may be yieldingly supported in the box by means of any kind of spring desired, but I prefer this springfork.

In lieu ot' marking-wheels any marking-device may be employed, as for instance a scorer, sponge or brush, though I prefer the wheels. 'lhe wheels, in the present instance, are of metal, and are designed to run in any suitable coloring matter located in the box. This coloring matter may be liquid'or powder, or, if desired, the wheels may be of lead or other coloring matter such as to leave a mark upon the shingle passed thereover. Each wheel projects through a slot4 in the plate or table and is pressed by the spring-fork upwardly so that a portion of the periphery of the wheel is above the surface of the plate or table.

In operation the shingles are passed over the table to be edged in the usual manner, and the spring-forks yielding to the pressure of the shingles against the wheels will lower until the peripheries of the wheels are Iiush with the plate or table, and when the shingle emerges at the opposite side of the edger the marks have been applied in the manner specilied.

From the foregoing description in connection with the accompanying drawings, it will. be seen that I have provided a very simple device adapted to be applied to any ordinary edging-machine, and which will simultaneous with the edging or operation of the machine apply the marks to the under side of the shingle. Of course by reversing the shingle the marks may be applied to each side.

I do not limit my invention to the precise details of construction herein shown and described, but hold that I may vary the same to any degree and extent within the knowledge of the skilled mechanic without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the ad vantages thereof. n

Having described my invention, -what I claim is- ICO l. In a shingle marker, the combination ot a liquid-tight pigment box secured to the under side of a slotted edging machine plate or table below the slot therein, an inverted L- shaped spring metal forked plate having its v,

marking-wheel arranged upon the shaft and yieldingly pressed through the slot in the plate or table, substantially as specified.

8. The combination with the plate or table of an edging-machine having a series of slots, of a box arranged thereunder, a plate secured to one wall of the box and having a series of depressed recesses, and a plurality of inverted L-shaped spring-forks, and Wheels carried by the forks and projecting through the slots in the plate or table, substantially as specified.v

lIn testimony that Iclaim the foregoing as my own I have hereto atxed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

CALEB GUYER. Witnesses:

C. L. WILSON, EDWIN GUYER. 

